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#236084 - Tue Jul 20 2004 01:33 AM Questionable Compliment?
damnsuicidalroos Offline
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I recently received the following pm. I`m curious as to whether it should be read as a compliment or an insult.
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I waz wonderin if u can join ma group - Da Brainy Bunch... cuz dis group need sum1 smart lyk u!!!!!!!!! send mehh a message on wuts ur decision....



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#236085 - Tue Jul 20 2004 03:05 AM Re: Questionable Compliment?
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The fact that you can read it at all is a miracle by itself! ! Interpretting it beyond that, well, is up to you. You gonna join? Are ya? Are ya?
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#236086 - Tue Jul 20 2004 07:30 AM Re: Questionable Compliment?
lothruin Offline
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Shouldn't that be "r u? r u?"
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#236087 - Thu Jul 22 2004 01:13 AM Re: Questionable Compliment?
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Unfortunately you are not the only person to receive this well word request but the request was turned down due to difficulty in communications

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#236088 - Sat Jul 24 2004 09:38 PM Re: Questionable Compliment?
blurrystar1 Offline
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I think you've got a compliment there that got mucked up and twisted in the process of sending it.

Maybe if they were trying to send you a hate mail or something like it, it would have come out beautifully written!!
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#236089 - Sun Jul 25 2004 03:03 PM Re: Questionable Compliment?
satguru Offline
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I thought the all time most questionable compliment has to be 'You're too good for me' - and someone actually used it on me! It didn't feel good though

unless it had been 'UR 2 gud 4 meh', which may have felt even worse...
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#236090 - Sun Jul 25 2004 04:39 PM Re: Questionable Compliment?
DLHenry Offline
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haha, nice one satguru, that compliment does not feel good. As for whether the comment from the smartie's group was an insult, I'd say maybe he was just joking around with you. Pretending to be stupid so you would be skeptical about joining.
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#236091 - Mon Jul 26 2004 09:11 AM Re: Questionable Compliment?
tellywellies Offline
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Quote:

I thought the all time most questionable compliment has to be 'You're too good for me' - and someone actually used it on me! It didn't feel good though



Yeah, It makes you feel like saying, "I can be bad, honest I can! - Just say how bad you want me to be and I'll be it! - Wow I can be bad, only last week I ate the crusts off both ends of a new loaf of bread ...how bad is that?!! Please give me a chance to be bad!" ...(walk around making growling noises with your fingers pointing up from your forehead like horns).

Well, it could work.
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#236092 - Mon Jul 26 2004 07:09 PM Re: Questionable Compliment?
DLHenry Offline
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Ya, and then you could put underwear on your head while shouting "I am a bad man" and try to run through a wall. That could work too...
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#236093 - Wed Jul 28 2004 09:09 PM Re: Questionable Compliment?
DLHenry Offline
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Wow, did I say that??? Must have been something I ate...
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